How did you learn to breakdance? I think most bboys have come across this question more than any other. Can you blame the people who ask you, I mean what kind of normal people decide to get on their heads and start spinning. I can completely understand why people get so fascinated with the art form.

From getting taught by friends and yes even watching videos online, everyone has a great story about the first time they learned about break dancing and realized there was so much more to bboying then the windmill.

Here is my story on how I learned to breakdance….

Breakdancing has always been around and popped up here and there in mainstream media. From commercials for iPods to music videos by Limp Bizkit (Mr. Wiggles). Most people see someone spin on their head and think wow thats cool and nothing else. Well for some of us our curiosity got the best of us and we decided that we need to learn more.

Back in the day when the internet was still young it was damn hard to find any kind of good information out there. In fact, its safe to say its still pretty damn hard to find good content on bboying, thats why I started this blog. I remember waiting 20 minutes for a simple six step video to download so I can figure out footwork. Quickly I realized this was a waste of time and bought a few Videos (yes that old school) online of Out for Fame, Freestyle Session, and BOTY.

At this point I was hooked on breakdancing, even though I still couldn’t even master up rock. Like anything else, when you are into something you start to notice it around you more. I realized it was all around me, even among my friends and other kids in high school.

I used to hang out with a couple of kids in another school who one day I noticed were trying to windmill. I thought it was pretty funny that they were trying to windmill before footwork, thats like trying to run before you can crawl. They didn’t think it was as funny as I did and bet me that I couldn’t learn to do it, they gave me 3 months.

Back at my own school the kids who did “breakdancing” were a bunch of ravers. Although they were not bboys, besides dancing to techno and their weird uprock, once they were on beat and had sicker flow then most “bboys” today. I watched them practice for days and one day one of them asked me if I wanted to learn, I was like hell yeah.

After a few months I started to realize how whack these guys were, and needed to find other people to learn with. I started finding competitions in NYC and other bboys around the area… and so it began. One day I had to battle one of the guys in a crew I used to practice with. Even though I lost, they accepted me… Cypher Designs Crew.

How did you learn to breakdance? Leave a comment.